Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 Seiten |
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... tell you one of these days . What's yours ? " " Life , " replies Mr. Ginn , recover- ing , " is a reg - u - lar double - jointed sum in algebra , with an awful remainder . It's a com - plete thimble - rig - when you look for the little ...
... tell you one of these days . What's yours ? " " Life , " replies Mr. Ginn , recover- ing , " is a reg - u - lar double - jointed sum in algebra , with an awful remainder . It's a com - plete thimble - rig - when you look for the little ...
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... tell ye . They'll starve yet , or your uncle's no prophet . A - just catches him at that game , t'other night — wo- man a hollerin ' , but keepin ' the cries shady , you know , for - a - m blowed if a - ever see the like of them women ...
... tell ye . They'll starve yet , or your uncle's no prophet . A - just catches him at that game , t'other night — wo- man a hollerin ' , but keepin ' the cries shady , you know , for - a - m blowed if a - ever see the like of them women ...
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... tell ye all about it . ' Cause , you know , there's a desperate case o ' small - pox in this house , and you'd better not risk comin ' in . " The Dark Student listens to this pro- position . He sees the house with the portico and ...
... tell ye all about it . ' Cause , you know , there's a desperate case o ' small - pox in this house , and you'd better not risk comin ' in . " The Dark Student listens to this pro- position . He sees the house with the portico and ...
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... tell me , one of these days . Supposin ' ye just let it out now ! " 66 My God ! Ginn , how did they live ? " exclaims the appalled listener . Well , a - guess some of ' em didn't live , " answers the caterer , with some- thing like a ...
... tell me , one of these days . Supposin ' ye just let it out now ! " 66 My God ! Ginn , how did they live ? " exclaims the appalled listener . Well , a - guess some of ' em didn't live , " answers the caterer , with some- thing like a ...
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... 'll get your eyes peeled to that fact one of these days - well , ye will ! " Tell ye " Well , Ginn , he's dead now , and what are they going to do ? " asks the young man , sadly . 24 " Don't know , " replies Mr. Ginn .
... 'll get your eyes peeled to that fact one of these days - well , ye will ! " Tell ye " Well , Ginn , he's dead now , and what are they going to do ? " asks the young man , sadly . 24 " Don't know , " replies Mr. Ginn .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 202 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Seite 167 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Seite 49 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 506 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim...
Seite 524 - Here the free spirit of mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Seite 448 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Seite 8 - At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
Seite 249 - Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.
Seite 319 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Seite 472 - Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct...